Afternoon Music Inc. offers four chamber music concerts featuring professional jazz and classical musicians.
908-273-3245 • www.ucsummit.org
Crescent Concerts Plainfield, multi-disciplinary presentation of vocal, instrumental, choral and orchestral music bringing high quality musical events to the residents of the City of Plainfield and surrounding communities. Programming for the series is diverse, and ranges through solo voice and instrumental performances, chamber groups, bell choirs, to full choral/orchestral spectaculars.
908-756-2468 • www.crescentconcerts.org
Friends of Jazz is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring the joy and healing power of music to the community. Founded in 1998 by blind trumpeter, Robert Young, the Friends of Jazz have done over 90 performances and reached over 10,000 people.
908-755-1120
Soumas H.E.R.I.T.A.G.E., Plainfield, provides affordable lesson packages to accommodate you or your family member’s interests, talents and goals. Teachers are dedicated to the growth and music education of beginning and advanced students. Instruction includes 1/2 hour and full hour weekly private lessons on: piano, voice, woodwinds, brass, strings and percussion.
908-222-1722 • www.heritageprograms.org/school
Institute of Music for Children, Inc.- After school arts workshops and private music lessons. One month Summer Institute – Arts programming in two and four week sessions for ages 6-14 years.
908-352-5847 • www.instituteofmusic.org
Music for All Seasons fosters human interaction and healing, through the art of live musical performance, for people who, for health economic or social reasons are unable to attend concerts.
908-322-6300 or toll-free: 1-866-524-MFAS (6327)
New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra brings together musicians of different ages and abilities to promote mutual growth and understanding through the experience of musical performance. Members have ranged in age from 6 to 93 and have come from over 44 communities throughout New Jersey.
570 Central Avenue, New Providence, NJ 07974 • www.njio.org
New Jersey Youth Symphony primary purpose is to provide talented young musicians with orchestral and related music education experiences that enable them to reach their highest potential as performers and listeners.
908-771-5544 • www.njys.org
Plainfield Symphony Orchestra has the distinction of being the oldest community orchestra in the state of New Jersey, and the third oldest in the country! Numerous citations dot the walls of their main office at the Crescent Avenue Church, in Plainfield, including proclamations from President Ronald Reagan and the City of Plainfield.
908-561-5140 • www.plainfi eldsymphony.org
Judith G. Wharton Music Center (formerly the Suburban Community Music Center). One of the largest independent non-profit music-schools in New Jersey offers music instruction for virtually everyone – from three-month-olds to seniors – taught by a faculty of some of the finest artist-educators working in and around New York City today.
908-790-0700 • www.whartonmusiccenter.org
New Jersey Jazz Society provides live jazz concerts to its members and the general public – such as the PeeWee Russell Stomp and Jazzfest. NJJS also sponsors educational outreach programs.
908-342-0558 • www.njjs.org
Summit Symphony Orchestra was formed in 1938 by the Summit Board of Recreation with the dual purpose of (1) providing an arena for qualified non-professional musicians to read and perform orchestral music, and (2) presenting orchestral concerts, free of charge, to residents of Summit and the surrounding areas. It has been performing in Summit every year since.
908-464-7215 • www.summitsymphonynj.org
Westfield Community Band 908-789-4080 • www.westfieldcommunityband.com
Westfield Symphony Orchestra is a dynamic world class musical experience for discerning people that rivals any in the New York Metropolitan area. Music lovers are invited to discover critically acclaimed conductor David Wroe’s passionate and innovative approach to orchestral music and be transported by an exhilarating evening of music in a setting close to home.
224 East Broad Street, Suite 5, Westfield, NJ 07090.
908-232-9400 • www.westfieldsymphony.org